U.S. patent number 8,365,241 [Application Number 12/135,703] was granted by the patent office on 2013-01-29 for method and apparatus for archiving web content based on a policy.
This patent grant is currently assigned to Symantec Corporation. The grantee listed for this patent is Laxmikant Vithal Gunda. Invention is credited to Laxmikant Vithal Gunda.
United States Patent |
8,365,241 |
Gunda |
January 29, 2013 |
Method and apparatus for archiving web content based on a
policy
Abstract
A method and apparatus for archiving web content is disclosed.
In one embodiment, the method comprises monitoring internet
activity associated with at least one computer, wherein web content
is communicated during the internet activity and analyzing
information associated with the internet activity in accordance
with a policy. The policy is used to identify a portion of web
content to be archived.
Inventors: |
Gunda; Laxmikant Vithal (Pune,
IN) |
Applicant: |
Name |
City |
State |
Country |
Type |
Gunda; Laxmikant Vithal |
Pune |
N/A |
IN |
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Assignee: |
Symantec Corporation (Mountain
View, CA)
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Family
ID: |
47562425 |
Appl.
No.: |
12/135,703 |
Filed: |
June 9, 2008 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
726/1 |
Current CPC
Class: |
H04L
67/02 (20130101); H04L 67/306 (20130101) |
Current International
Class: |
G06F
9/40 (20060101); H04L 29/06 (20060101) |
References Cited
[Referenced By]
U.S. Patent Documents
Other References
Schulman, "The Extent of Systematic Monitoring of Employee E-mail
and Internet Use", Workplace Surveillance Project, Jul. 2001, pp.
1-16. cited by examiner .
Kim et al., "A Case Study on the Development of Employee Internet
Management System", Springer-verlag, ICCSA 2005, pp. 1229-1238.
cited by examiner .
Miller et al., "Privacy, the Workplace and the Internet", Journal
of Business Ethics, 2000, pp. 255-265. cited by examiner.
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Primary Examiner: Powers; William
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Campbell Stephenson LLP
Claims
The invention claimed is:
1. A method for using a policy to archive web content, comprising:
monitoring internet activity associated with at least one computer,
wherein a set of web content is downloaded to the at least one
computer during the internet activity; determining a portion of the
set of web content to be archived, based on the policy, wherein the
policy identifies a plurality of properties of web content to be
archived, and the portion of the set of web content is associated
with at least one property identified in the policy; archiving the
portion of the set of web content in an archive, in response to the
determining, wherein the archive is distinct from the at least one
computer; and determining a retention grade, wherein the retention
grade is determined for the at least one computer based on the
internet activity, and the internet activity indicates a security
risk posed by an employee using the at least one computer.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the portion
further comprises comparing information associated with the
internet activity to the plurality of properties identified in the
policy.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the information indicates the
portion is associated with a domain name of a web page and the
policy comprises the domain name.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the policy indicates that the web
page and at least one link within the web page are to be archived,
and the portion comprises the web page and the at least one
link.
5. The method of claim 2, wherein the information indicates the
portion is associated with at least one of a user identification
and a computer identification, and the policy indicates that all
web content associated with the user identification and the
computer identification is to be archived.
6. The method of claim 2, wherein the policy indicates that a web
page visited by the employee is to be archived, and the information
associated with the internet activity indicates the portion of the
set of web content is visited by the employee.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the archiving the portion further
comprises storing the portion of the set of web content for a
duration of a retention period, wherein the policy defines the
duration of the retention period based on the retention grade of
the employee that downloaded the portion of the web content, and
the retention grade is one of a plurality of retention grades
associated with a plurality of employees.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the retention grade is determined
for the employee based on a security risk posed by the employee, an
employee group of the employee indicates the security risk posed by
the employee, and a greater security risk indicates a longer
retention period.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the portion
further comprises examining the web content communicated during the
internet activity for at least one property identified in the
policy.
10. The method of claim 1, further comprising: analyzing the web
content to produce an analysis result; and modifying the policy
based on the analysis result.
11. The method of claim 1, further comprising: modifying the policy
in real time, wherein the at least one computer accesses one or
more web sites during the internet activity, the set of web content
is downloaded from the one or more web sites to the at least one
computer during the internet activity, the one or more web sites
are associated with a domain name, and the policy is modified to
include the domain name.
12. The method of claim 1, wherein the archiving the portion of the
set of web content comprises transmitting the portion of the set of
web content to the archive, wherein the archive comprises a
relational database, and the archive is configured to retrieve the
portion of the set of web content in response to one or more
database queries.
13. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of web content comprises
one or more web pages, documents, applications, electronic
services, multimedia files, electronic mail, instant messages,
data, metadata, scripts, hyperlinks, and forms.
14. An apparatus for using a policy to archive web content,
comprising: a memory configured to store the policy, wherein the
policy is configured to identify a plurality of properties of web
content to be archived; and an archive module configured to
determine a portion of a set of web content to be archived based on
the policy, wherein the set of web content is downloaded during
internet activity associated with the apparatus, and the portion of
the set of web content is associated with at least one property
identified in the policy, archive the portion of the set of web
content in an archive, in response to the determination of the
portion to be archived, and determine a retention grade, wherein
the retention grade is determined for the at least one computer
based on the internet activity, and the internet activity indicates
a security risk posed by an employee using the at least one
computer.
15. The apparatus of claim 14 further comprising an agent
configured to monitor the web content communicated during the
internet activity.
16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the agent copies at least
one web page communicated during the internet activity, and the set
of web content comprises the at least one web page.
17. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the archive module is
further configured to compare properties of the set of web content
with the plurality of properties identified in the policy, wherein
the portion is associated with a domain name of at least one web
page, and the policy comprises the domain name and indicates that
the at least one web page is to be archived.
18. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the archive module is
further configured to compare information associated with the
internet activity with the plurality of properties identified in
the policy, wherein the information indicates the portion is
associated with at least one of a user identification and a
computer identification, and the policy indicates that all web
content associated with the user identification and the computer
identification is to be archived.
19. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the archive module is
further configured to store the portion of the set of web content
for a duration of the retention period, wherein the policy defines
the duration of the retention period based on a retention grade of
the employee that downloaded the portion of the web content, and
the retention grade is one of a plurality of retention grades
associated with a plurality of employees.
20. A system for using a policy to archive web content, comprising:
a filter for monitoring internet activity, comprising: a monitor
module configured to monitor a set of web content downloaded to at
least one client computer during the internet activity, wherein the
internet activity is associated with the at least one client
computer, and an archive module configured to determine a portion
of the set of web content to be archived based on the policy,
wherein the policy identifies a plurality of properties of web
content to be archived, and the portion of the set of web content
is associated with at least one property identified in the policy,
archive the portion of the set of web content in an archive, in
response to the determination of the portion to be archived, and
determine a retention grade, wherein the retention grade is
determined for the at least one computer based on the internet
activity, and the internet activity indicates a security risk posed
by an employee using the at least one computer; and the at least
one client computer for communicating the set of web content during
the internet activity.
21. The system of claim 20, wherein the archive module is further
configured to store the portion of the set of web content for a
retention period defined by the policy, wherein the retention
period is associated with a retention grade of the employee that
downloaded the portion of the set of web content, and the retention
grade is one of a plurality of retention grades associated with a
plurality of employees.
22. The system of claim 20, wherein the archive module is further
configured to compare information associated with the internet
activity with the plurality of properties identified in the policy,
wherein the information indicates the portion is associated with a
domain name of at least one web page the policy comprises the
domain name and indicates that the at least one web page is to be
archived, and the portion comprises the at least one web page.
23. The system of claim 20, wherein the archive module is further
configured to compare properties of the set of web content with the
plurality of properties identified in the policy to determine the
portion of the web content to be archived.
24. A method for using a policy to archive web content, comprising:
monitoring internet activity associated with at least one computer,
wherein a set of web content is downloaded to the at least one
computer during the internet activity; determining a portion of the
set of web content to be archived, based on the policy, wherein the
policy identifies a plurality of properties of web content to be
archived, and the portion of the set of web content is associated
with at least one property identified in the policy; archiving the
portion of the set of web content in an archive, in response to the
determining, wherein the archive is distinct from the at least one
computer; and determining a retention grade, wherein the retention
grade is determined based on a computer identification of the at
least one computer.
25. A method for using a policy to archive web content, comprising:
monitoring internet activity associated with at least one computer,
wherein a set of web content is downloaded to the at least one
computer during the internet activity; determining a portion of the
set of web content to be archived, based on the policy, wherein the
policy identifies a plurality of properties of web content to be
archived, and the portion of the set of web content is associated
with at least one property identified in the policy; archiving the
portion of the set of web content in an archive, in response to the
determining, wherein the archive is distinct from the at least one
computer; and determining a retention grade, wherein the retention
grade is determined based on an employee identification of an
employee that viewed the set of web content.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to
policy-based internet archiving and, more particularly, to a method
and apparatus for policy-based archiving of web content that was
communicated during internet activity associated with a
computer.
2. Description of the Related Art
An enterprise may employ one or more system for processing and/or
storing data. The typical enterprise may use a server computer to
provide computer services to multiple client computers.
Furthermore, data used by the client computers may be stored or
archived onto a storage medium (e.g., an optical disk, a magnetic
tape and the like) in a data storage device (e.g., a tape drive, a
hard disk drive, a RAID configuration storage array and/or the
like). The archived data may be retrieved in the future for various
reasons, such as disaster recovery, discovery for pending
litigation, ordinary use by the client computers and/or the
like.
Currently, archiving software is limited to certain types of data,
such as email messages. The archiving software does not archive web
content associated with internet activity, such as web pages (e.g.,
web content, universal Resource Locators (URLS), embedded links
and/or the like), files downloaded, sent/received web based e-mail
and/or the like. Even though web content may be temporarily stored
in a cache (e.g., a browser cache), such a cache is under the
control of the user and not the system administrator. Hence, the
web content and/or the web pages indicated in the cache may be
removed (e.g., purged) and/or modified.
Therefore, there is a need in the art for a method and apparatus
for archiving web content associated with internet activity amongst
one or more computers in accordance with a policy where the
archived web content may be retrieved in the future.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Embodiments of the present invention comprise a method and system
for a policy based internet archiving. In one embodiment, a method
for using a policy to archive web content comprises monitoring
internet activity associated with at least one computer, wherein
the web content is communicated during the internet activity and
analyzing information associated with the internet activity in
accordance with a policy, wherein the policy is used to identify a
portion of the web content to be archived.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
So that the manner in which the above recited features of the
present invention can be understood in detail, a more particular
description of the invention, briefly summarized above, may be had
by reference to embodiments, some of which are illustrated in the
appended drawings. It is to be noted, however, that the appended
drawings illustrate only typical embodiments of this invention and
are therefore not to be considered limiting of its scope, for the
invention may admit to other equally effective embodiments.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a system for archiving web content
based on a policy according to an embodiment of the present
invention;
FIG. 2 is a flow diagram of a method for archiving web content
based on a policy according to an embodiment of the present
invention; and
FIG. 3 is a flow diagram of a method for managing archived web
content using a retention period according to an embodiment of the
present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a system 100 for archiving web content
based on a policy according to an embodiment of the present
invention. The system 100 comprises a client 102, a filter 104 and
an archive 106 where each is coupled to each other through a
network 108. In one embodiment, the system 100 archives a plurality
of web pages flowing in and out of the client 102 and/or the filter
104 based on a policy 130.
During a period of internet activity (i.e., web browsing or
visiting one or more web sites), the client 102 utilizes various
network resources on the network 108 to connect to the internet
(e.g., World Wide Web) and communicate data (e.g., data packets)
with one or more computers. For example, the client 102 may use the
Internet to access (e.g., download) web content 132, such as
electronic mail, instant messages, web pages (e.g., Hypertext
Markup Language (HTML) documents), web applications, electronic
services, data files (e.g., multimedia) and/or the like. In one
embodiment, the client 102 accesses the Internet through the filter
104.
The client 102 may be a computing device (e.g., a desktop computer,
a laptop, a mobile phone, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and/or
the like) that comprises a Central Processing Unit (CPU) 110,
various support circuits 112 and a memory 114. The CPU 110 may
comprise one or more commercially available microprocessors or
microcontrollers that facilitate data processing and storage. The
various support circuits 112 facilitate operation of the CPU 110
and may include one or more clock circuits, buses, power supplies,
input/output circuits and/or the like. The memory 114 includes a
read only memory, random access memory, disk drive storage, optical
storage, removable storage, and the like. The memory 114 further
includes various software packages, such as a browser 116 and an
agent 118.
The browser 116, generally, comprises software code for accessing
the Internet and viewing web content 132 (e.g., one or more web
pages, documents, data, applications, e-services, images,
audio/video files, web e-mail messages and the like). The browser
116 may be a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) compliant web
browser application. In one embodiment, the browser 116 generates
an interface to facilitate the internet activity. For example, a
user requests and/or view the web content 132 through the interface
of the browser 116.
The filter 104 may be a computing device (e.g., a desktop computer,
a router or gateway, a laptop, a mobile phone, a Personal Digital
Assistant (PDA) and/or the like) that comprises a CPU 120, various
support circuits 122 and a memory 124. The CPU 120 may comprise one
or more commercially available microprocessors or microcontrollers
that facilitate data processing and storage. The various support
circuits 122 facilitate operation of the CPU 120 and may include
one or more clock circuits, buses, power supplies, input/output
circuits and/or the like. The memory 124 includes a read only
memory, random access memory, disk drive storage, optical storage,
removable storage, and the like. The memory 124 further includes
various data, such as the policy 130 and the web content 132. The
memory 124 further includes various software packages, such as a
monitor 126 and an archive module 128.
The filter 104 is configured to monitor the internet activity as
described above. In one embodiment, the filter 104 stores
information regarding the internet activity (e.g., a URL or an
Internet Protocol (IP) address of a visited web site, an identity
of a particular user or group that visited the web site, a level of
security during the visit, data for an enabled Java script and/or
the like). In another embodiment, the filter 104 assesses the web
content 132 for one or more security risks and blocks or permits
the communication of the web content 132 to the client 102. In one
embodiment, the filter 104 may be a server computer (e.g. web
server, file/application server and/or the like) that provides data
storage and/or processing services to one or more client computers,
such as the client 102. In another embodiment, the filter 104 may
be a router (e.g., a gateway) that manages access to the Internet
for the one or more client computers.
Generally, the archive 106 comprises data storage for storing
archived web content. In one embodiment, the filter 104 determines
one or more portions of the web content to be archived in
accordance with the policy 130. Then, the filter 104 transmits the
one or more archived portions of the web content 132 to the archive
106 for storage. In one embodiment, the archive 106 may be a
relational database for managing one or more archived portions of
the web content 132. Accordingly, a system administrator may
subsequently use a database query (Standard Query Language (SQL)
query) to retrieve the one or more archived portions of the web
content 132 from the archive 106.
The network 108 comprises a communication system that connects
computers by wire, cable, fiber optic and/or wireless link
facilitated by various types of well-known network elements, such
as hubs, switches, routers, and the like. The network 108 may
further employ various well-known protocols to communicate
information amongst the network resources. For example, the network
108 may be a part of the Internet or Intranet using various
communications infrastructure, such as Ethernet, WiFi, WiMax,
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and the like. The network 108
may be a part of a Local Area Network (LAN), a Wide Area Network
(WAN), or any other known network architecture.
The monitor 126 comprises software code that is executed by the CPU
120. The monitor 126 is configured to process information
associated with the Internet activity related to the client 102
and/or the filter 104. In one embodiment of the present invention,
the monitor 126 examines data (e.g. data packets) communicated to
the client 102 during the internet activity. The data packets
comprise information associated with the internet activity, such as
metadata, one or more domain names, one or more web page
properties, Java scripts, Active X scripts and the like. These data
packets may also comprise one or more web pages (e.g., HTML
documents, XHTML documents and the like). In one embodiment, the
monitor 126 stores one or more portions of the data communicated
during the Internet activity as the web content 132.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the monitor 126
collects the web content 132 communicated during the Internet
activity, such as text (e.g., HTML text), one or more multimedia
files, interactive information (e.g., FLASH applications, Java
applets, MICROSOFT WINDOWS controls, Dynamic HTML (DHTML) and/or
the like), one or more hyperlinks, one or more scripts (e.g., a
Java script), one or more forms (e.g., database forms), metadata
(e.g., one or more web page properties) and the like. In one
embodiment, the web content 132 comprises one or more portions of
the information associated with the Internet activity. For example,
the monitor 126 may store a number of web pages viewed by a
particular user or group as the web content 132.
According to various embodiments of the present invention, the
monitor 126 and the archive module 128 cooperate to archive one or
more portions of the web content 132 in accordance with the policy
130. Such various embodiments may be referred to as agent less
archival. In operation, the archive module 128 analyzes the
information associated with the internet activity based on the
policy 130 to identify the one or more portions of the web content
132 to be archived. Subsequently, the archive module 128 stores the
one or more identified portions of the web content 132 in the
archive 106. In another embodiment, the archive module 128 may
compare the web content 132 with the policy 130 to determine the
one or more portions of the web content 132 to be archived. For
example, the policy 130 may indicate one or more domain names
associated with one or more web pages to be archived. Hence, the
archive module 128 compares a domain name of a visited web page to
the one or more domain names to determine whether the visited web
page is to be archived.
Generally, the policy 130 comprises an archival policy that is used
to identify a portion of the web content 132 to be archived. In one
embodiment, the policy 130 may indicate that a web page and/or each
and every link (e.g., Hyperlink) within the web page is to be
archived. In one embodiment of the invention, the policy 130 may
indicate that a web page associated with a particular property is
to be archived. For example, the policy 130 may instruct the
archive module 128 to archive each and every non-secure web page.
In another embodiment, the policy 130 may indicate that a web page
comprising a Java Script is to be archived. In another embodiment,
the policy 130 may indicate that a web page visited or viewed by a
particular group, user and/or computer is to be archived.
In yet another embodiment of the invention, the policy 130 may also
be configured to be dynamic (i.e., modifiable). The policy 130 may
be modified based on an analysis of the web content 132. In one
embodiment, the archive module 128 analyzes the web content 132 to
modify the policy 130 in real time. For example, the real time
analysis of the web content 132 may indicate that one or more web
pages associated with a particular domain name is to be archived.
As such, the policy 130 is modified by the archive module to
include the particular domain name. Alternatively, the real time
analysis may indicate that the one or more web pages associated
with the particular domain name are not to be archived.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the policy 130 may
indicate a retention period for managing the one or more archived
portions of the web content 132 in the archive 106. For example,
the archive 106 stores the one or more archived portions of the web
content 132 until the retention period elapses. Then, the one or
more archived portions of the web content 132 are deleted or
removed from the archive 106. In addition, the retention period may
be based upon a retention grade associated with a particular
employee and/or a particular computer, such as the client 102. The
retention grade for the particular employee or the particular
computer may be determined based on the monitored Internet
activity. For example, one or more web pages visited by a grade "A"
employee (i.e., low level) may have a retention period for one
year. Furthermore, a grade "B" employee and a grade "C" employee
may be associated with retention periods of two years and three
years, respectively. Accordingly, one or more retention periods are
assigned to various employee grades until the Chief Operating
Officer who has a retention period of seven years.
Optionally, the client 102 further includes the agent 118 and the
web content 132. Such optional embodiments of the present invention
may be referred to as agent based archival. The agent 118 comprises
software code for monitoring the internet activity associated with
the client 102 (e.g., data packets communicated between the client
102 and the Internet). Alternatively, the agent 118 may be a
component of the browser 116. In one embodiment, the agent 118
stores one or more portions of the information associated with the
Internet activity as the web content 132.
In one embodiment, the agent 118 may be used to monitor web pages
communicated to the client 102 (i.e., instead of the monitor 126).
For example, the agent 118 may mirror or copy each and every web
page communicated to the client 102. In one embodiment, the agent
118 may be configured to analyze the monitored web pages based on
the policy 130 (i.e., instead of the archive module 128).
Accordingly, the agent 118 identifies one or more web pages to be
archived as indicated by the policy 130. Then, the agent 118
archives the one or more web pages in accordance with the policy
130. Furthermore, the agent 118 accesses security information
associated with a user or group that is accessing the monitored web
pages. The agent 118 may compare the security information with the
policy 130 to determine a retention period for the user or
group.
In yet another embodiment of the invention, an embodiment for agent
based archival and an embodiment for agent less archival may be
combined to deliver one or more advantages of both forms of web
content archival. For example, ActiveX scripts or Java scripts are
archived in accordance with the embodiment for agent less archival
because the browser 116 may block such scripts from the client 102
through a pop-up blocker.
FIG. 2 is a flow diagram of a method 200 for archiving web content
based on a policy according to an embodiment of the present
invention. The method 200 has been explained with reference to the
system 100 of FIG. 1, but may be embodied in any other system in
accordance with one or more embodiments of the invention. The
method 200 starts at step 202 and proceeds to step 204, at which a
policy (e.g., the policy 130 of FIG. 1) is accessed. In an
embodiment, the policy may indicate one or more web pages to be
archived as described above.
At step 206, web content is processed. In one embodiment, the web
content is communicated to a client computer or a filter during
internet activity. At step 208, the web content is compared with
the policy. In one embodiment, an archive module (e.g., the archive
module 128 of FIG. 1) or an agent (e.g., the agent 118 of FIG. 1)
may compare the web content to the policy.
At step 210, a determination is made as to whether a portion of the
web content is to be archived. If no portion of the web content is
determined to be archived (option "NO"), the method 200 proceeds to
step 214 where the method 200 ends. If a portion of the web content
is determined to be archived in accordance with the policy (option
"YES"), the method 200 proceeds to step 212. At 212, the portion of
the web content is stored. For example, a web page and one or more
hyperlinks within the web page are stored in an archive (e.g., the
archive 106 of FIG. 1). The method 200 proceeds to step 214. At
step 214, the method 200 ends.
FIG. 3 is a flow diagram of a method for managing archived web
content using a retention period according to an embodiment of the
present invention. The method 300 starts at step 302 and proceeds
to step 304, at which a next archived web item (e.g., archived web
content, such as a web page) is retrieved (e.g., from an archive,
such as the archive 106 of FIG. 1). At step 306, a determination is
made as to whether the retrieval of one or more archived web items
has finished. If the retrieval of the one or more archived web
items has finished, the method 300 proceeds to step 308 where the
method 300 sleeps. The method 300 wakes up when a new web item is
archived and returns to step 304 where the archived web item is
retrieved. Alternatively, the method 300 ends at step 308. For
example, the method 300 ends at step 308 upon an instruction from a
storage administrator. If the retrieval of the one or more archived
web items has not finished, the method 300 proceeds to step
310.
At step 310, a retention grade is computed based on a user id, a
group id and/or a computer id using a policy (e.g., the policy 130
of FIG. 1). In one embodiment, the retention grade may be computed
for a computer (e.g., the client 102 of FIG. 1) or a particular
group of employees. At step 312, a retention period for the
retention grade is determined using the policy. For example, the
policy may define a retention period of one year for grade A
employees. The policy may also define a retention period of two
years for grade B employees. For example, an employee in a
technical group may have retention grade A; whereas, an employee in
a marketing group may have retention grade B because grade A
employees pose a lower security risk for the enterprise than grade
B employees. In addition, grade A employees may visit a significant
number of web pages and require a lower retention period to free
storage resources for further archiving.
At step 314, a determination is made as to whether the retention
period of an archived web item is reached. In one embodiment, an
archive module (e.g., the archive module 128 of FIG. 1) examines
the archived web items and expires a web item based on various
factors, such as a current time, a creation time and the retention
period. In another embodiment, the archive module performs such an
examination at regularly scheduled intervals. If the retention
period of the archived web item is not reached (option "NO"), the
method 300 returns to step 304. If the retention period of the
archived web item is reached (option "YES"), the method 300
proceeds to step 316. At step 316, the archived web item is removed
and the method 300 returns to step 304.
The various embodiments described herein offer various advantages.
The various embodiments discussed herein may be embedded within
security or monitoring software and thus may enhance endpoint as
well as gateway protection of the network system. Furthermore, the
policy based archival system described herein archives and delivers
web content for legal scrutiny or e-discovery. Moreover by
archiving the web content, the system further prevents data loss to
facilitate disaster recovery.
While the foregoing is directed to embodiments of the present
invention, other and further embodiments of the invention may be
devised without departing from the basic scope thereof, and the
scope thereof is determined by the claims that follow.
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